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JESPEB JOHAN HENRIOK LIBEROTH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

lRONlNG-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 382,1'70, dated May 1 1888.

Application filed August 6, 1887. Serial No. 246,260. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J ESPER J OHAN HENRICK LIBEROTH, a subject of the King of Denmark, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ladies Ironing- Boards, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

This invention relates to means for properly retaining the sleeve of a ladys dress while its various parts are being ironed or pressed. It is composed of a novel construction of board for insertion in the sleeve or shoulder of a dress.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the board. Fig. 2 is aview of that portion of the board which retains the collar of the sleeve. Fig. 8 is a view of that portion which is located between the former for the sleeve proper and that for the cuff of. the sleeve. Fig. 4 is a side View, partly in section, of the block and adjacent parts, showing said block supporting one end of the board free of the table.

a is a former which fits into the upper portion of the shoulder of the sleeve of the dress. b is the former for the sleeve proper. cis the former for the cuff. These various portions are fitted, a to band I) to c, by the dowels d e, &c. The parts are broken away in Fig. 1 to show how two of these dowels fit into their sockets in order to retain the various parts together.

f is a block fitting between the formers band 0, containing holes 9 g for the dowels to pass This construction gives a flange, h, which, in connection with the neck-former z,

hereinafter described, allows the sleeve of the dress to be pressed or ironed on the former a b without having it comeinto contact with the table or other structure upon which the board is placed. This block f can be removed, which may be necessary in order to bring the cuff of the sleeve down upon the former a without having any portion of the cuff wrinkled or creased.

i is another former 011 the end of the board, against which is pressed or ironed the neck of the sleeve of the dress. This former has two slots in it,jj, through which set'screws k it pass, securing such former to the shoulderformer a, as seen by the part broken away. The object of this construction is that the board can be used for either the right or left sleeve by sliding in either one direction or the other the collar-former In Fig. 2 it is shown moved up in the position as found in Fig. 1. The dotted lines in Fig. 2 exhibit the position it would take if pushed down in the other direction for the purpose of adapting the board to a left instead of a right hand sleeve.

Z Z are two small clamps attached to the cuffformer a by means of rings m m.

a naretwointermediate spiral springs. The object of this construction is to permit of the end of the sleeve being taken hold of by the clamps Z Z under some little tension.

As soon as the hot iron is applied to the sleeve it will have the effect of relaxing the material of which it is composed. The amount of stretch will be taken up by reason of the clampsZldrawingdown the end of such sleeve, thus keeping the sleeve in a taut and unwrinkled condition until after the ironing or pressing process is over.

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